Egg-tester



No. 623,647. Patented Apr. 25, I899.. 12. HLANnEnsoN. EGG TESTER (Application filed May 20, 1898.1

(No Model.)

WITNESSES:

IJNTTED STATES CARL H. ANDERSON, OF KENOSHA, \VISCONSIN.

PATENT UFFTQE.

EGG-TESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,647, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed May 20, 1898.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL H. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Testers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in egg-testers; and the objects of my invention are to provide a cheap, handy, and effective egg-tester which every housekeeper can easily afford to buy, to form such a device out of a single piece of tin or other sheet metal in an inexpensive manner, and, finally, to provide an egg-tester in which the mirror may be easily removed for cleaning, repair, or exchange, in case such should be needed.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows, on a small scale, the economical manner in which I cut from a piece of tin or other sheet metal two blanks, from each of which I form the entire body of my device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of one of said blanks. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of my complete egg-tester. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view, as on the line a a in Fig. 3, with eggs placed in the eggopenings and intersected.

Referring to the various parts in the drawings by letters of reference, A designates the single-sheet metallic blank from which the box Bis formed. All the dotted lines in Fig. 2 designate linear points at which the blank is to be bent at about right angles, so that the portion 0 becomes the bottom, D the top with the egg-openings II in it, E and F the sides, and G the only end wall of the box. The

other end of the box is left entirely open for the operator to look through into the box upon the mirror I, which is placed upon the bottom of the box and held in place by the recess J, formed at the base of the end wall Serial No. 681,265. on model.)

G, and the u pWardly-proj ecting lip K, formed at the front end or edge of the bottom 0. Said lip leans slightly inward at its top and is provided with a notch L, through which the point of a knife or other pointed instrument may be inserted for lifting and forcing the front end of the mirror I upward past the lip K, and thus release it for cleaning or repair. The recess J is easily formed after the blank is out out in about the way shown with the notches M, tongues N, slits O, and the lips or edges P P P P, which after being bent at right angles with the blank hold the top and sides of the box in good shape for soldering and help to make the box strong and durable.

In Fig. 1 is shown how two blanks or boxbodies may be cut in such a manneras to waste hardly any metal.

In Fig. 4, Q represents two eggs placed in the egg-openings H, where light from any source, shining downwardly through them, will reflect from the mirror to the observers eye at the open end of the box and by showing a dark or spotted color will indicate if the eggs are unsound.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An egg-tester comprising a box having bottom, two sides, one end wall, and top provided with egg-openings, and a mirror detachably secured upon the bottom of the box, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. An egg-tester comprising a metallic box with egg-openings in the top, and one end open; a mirror placed upon the bottom of the box, with its rear end inserted in a recess formed in the rear wall of the box and its front end held by one or more up and inward bent tongues or lips formed at the front end of the bottom of the box, in a manner giving access to the front end of the mirror for raising and removing it, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CARL H. ANDERSON.

WVitnesses:

JOHN A. WINBERG, WILLIAM TELLGREN. 

